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Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum, 1792) 
AphiaID: 127144

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Pleuronectiformes (Order) > Pleuronectidae (Family) > Pleuronectinae (Subfamily) > Reinhardtius (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Reinhardtius Gill, 1861
Synonymised
taxa
  Hippoglossus groenlandicus Günther, 1862
Hippoglossus groenlandiensis Günther, 1862
Pleuronectes hippoglossoides Walbaum, 1792
Pleuronectes pinguis Fabricius, 1824
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides matsuurae Jordan & Snyder, 1901
Reinhardtius matsuurae Jordan & Snyder, 1901
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch kleine heilbot  [details]
English green halibut or Greenland turbot  [details]
English Greenland halibut  [details]
English turbot  [details]
French flétan du Groenland  [details]
French flétan du Groënland  [details]
French turbot  [details]
German schwarzer Heilbutt  [details]
Kalaallisut kalleraglik  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål blåkveite  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk blåkveite  [details]
Portuguese alabote-da-Gronelândia  [details]
Spanish hipogloso negro  [details]
Welsh lleden yr Ynys Las  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Reinhardtius hippoglossoides matsuurae Jordan & Snyder, 1901 accepted as Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum, 1792)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution British Columbia [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details]
Davis Strait [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Ungava Bay [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Lepeophtheirus hippoglossi (Krøyer, 1837) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Hatschekia hippoglossi (Cuvier, 1830) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Neobrachiella rostrata (Krøyer, 1837) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Sphyrion lumpi (Krøyer, 1845) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Hatschekia reinhardtii Wierzbicka, 1989 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Parabrachiella rostrata (Krøyer, 1837) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (51 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (84 nucleotides; 120 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on crustaceans, eelpouts, capelin, redfishes, deep sea prawns [details]

Distribution: Labrador to Gulf of Maine, as strays only in the southern part of its range [details]

Habitat: Bottom dweller, found to depths of 2000 m, migrate between spawning and feeding grounds. [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Importance: Social- Highly commercial [details]

Predators: Greenland shark, cod, salmon, pollock, greeland halibut, thorny skate [details]

Reproduction: Spawns in winter or early spring at depths approaching 1000 m, external fertilization; open water/ Substratum egg scatterers [details]
Images 
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
added on 2008-12-14 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Greenland halibut - dorsal view
Greenland halibut - dorsal view
added on 2011-01-03 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Greenland halibut - ventral view
Greenland halibut - ventral view
added on 2011-01-03 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked

Greenland halibut - very small juvenile
Greenland halibut - very small juvenile
added on 2011-01-03 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked

Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, David McRuer and Cheryl Frail ()
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Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
added on 2011-05-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Jean-François St-Pierre ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Reinhardtius hippoglossoides - turbot (juveniles)
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides - turbot (juveniles)
added on 2012-09-13 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127144
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum, 1792). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127144 on 2013-05-25
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